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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win In The AI Era · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:15 David Lieb I mean, I saw this at Google photos, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:17 David Lieb And when we proposed that we should build Google photos, a lot of people at Google were like, why would you do that?
Aravind Srinivas: Perplexity's Race to Build Agentic Search · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:04 David Lieb Um, and I think Sundar at Google probably would say that's the direction we're headed as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:32 David Lieb And at that point, like, on that New Year's Eve, did you in your head think, I'm building a thing that could really compete with Google and, like, take over a market as big as what Google offers? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:01 David Lieb Yeah, I heard you talk about this recently, but, you know, Google specifically has been trying to build perplexity-like experiences, um, and, you know, you joked. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:11 David Lieb Yeah, they just, like, changed the name of it, each Google I.O., and then not really.
- ▶ 18:31 David Lieb What, what do you think will be the very short-term things that your browser will do so much better than what I can get today in Chrome that will make me want to switch?
- ▶ 19:40 David Lieb We look for deep mind researchers also.
- ▶ 27:43 David Lieb Your main competitor, Google, their business model, as you've talked about, is selling ads, and you think that prevents them from being really good at what you're doing. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:28 David Lieb Well, you guys are the perfect example of how it's possible to go up against somebody as big as Google.
How To Build The Future: Aravind Srinivas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:21 David Lieb Today, my view of perplexity is a more intelligent Google search that's really useful in certain scenarios.
- ▶ 16:17 David Lieb You have this, like, initial momentum, and you, you said earlier, it wasn't until hindsight that you had the idea that, like, oh, we actually have a chance of competing with somebody like a Google. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:02 David Lieb Yeah, having spent almost a decade at Google myself, um, I see a lot of the culture of the early days of Google, like the things I've learned about Larry or about Sundar, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:37 David Lieb Like today, my view of perplexity is a more intelligent Google search that's really useful in certain scenarios.
- ▶ 31:02 David Lieb If I talk to people at Google, they would say, yep, that's what we're building. 7 times in the scene
How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:45 David Lieb Our goal is to turn Bump into a verb, just like Google has become a verb today, and we're looking forward to doing that this summer.
- ▶ 11:05 David Lieb Ultimately we sold the company to Google and the plan was to go turn photo roll, rebuild it with Google technology and make it Google photos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:05 David Lieb Ultimately we sold the company to Google and the plan was to go turn photo roll, rebuild it with Google technology and make it Google photos. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:23 David Lieb To Google on the first day and there had been a reorg, um, and all of the plans that we had agreed upon with our sponsor were out the window and we were tasked to go work on Google plus the social network.
- ▶ 12:47 David Lieb And I saw the opportunity with Google Photos to build something that would be very long-lasting, that would make 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:18 David Lieb I got fired from the team and told to go find a new role at Google. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:46 David Lieb Once we got the green light, um, you know, it was a, a team of, like, 20 of us from Bump latched on to maybe a team of, like, a hundred people, core people from Google with access to all of this incredible technology, and we were able to…
- ▶ 14:11 David Lieb The core idea of Google Photos was a home for all of your life's memories. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:37 David Lieb We were like an autonomous team inside of Google.
- ▶ 16:44 David Lieb And what I did was look at photos and videos on Google Photos of my family.
- ▶ 18:11 David Lieb I realized one more thing, which was the job that I had been doing at Google over the years, it had evolved, and it wasn't anymore the job that I loved, which was building products for users. 2 times in the scene
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:20 David Lieb And then I think that my advice is just try to pick something that people can easily say, and when I say it to you, you can type it into Google and spell it right. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:53 David Lieb Like when I worked on Google Photos,